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Hirohito’s role was largely symbolic, as a constitutional monarch. He served as a lightning rod for US propaganda, but the military of Japan basically ran the Diet. (The Japanese Parliament.) Hirohito could only vote in the Diet in the case of a tie, such as the decision to surrender after Nagasaki.
